Senior Software Engineer, Search

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs is a defense company that combines top engineering talent with decades of mission experience to deliver state-of-the-art technology to those in need. They specialize in a foreign text workflow platform, Decrypt, designed for national secu...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
$87M raised

Description

  • Define and adapt the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products.
  • Leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms.
  • Improve search latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance.
  • Collaborate with product engineers, designers, ML teams, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search improvements.
  • Research and apply emerging search and information-retrieval technologies, trends, and best practices.
  • Architect, develop, and deploy reliable, scalable, and performant search systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of backend software development experience, including 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields.
  • Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning.
  • Deep understanding of indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine, such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
  • Familiarity with search evaluation metrics and frameworks, including precision, recall, and NDCG.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
  • U.S. Person status required to access U.S.-only data systems.

Benefits

  • $150,000–$215,000 salary range plus equity.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work environment with WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, federal holiday downtime, and company-wide year-end time off.
  • 401(k) matching and lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
  • Fully paid parental leave.
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

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